Non-refillable bottle.



No. 685,|75.j Patented out. 22, 190|.

A. P.' mMuLnl. NUN-REFILLABLE BUTTLE.

(Application filed May 23. 1900. f (No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ACHILLES P. RIMOLDI, OF FORBES, NEW SOUTH VALES, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN DIXON RAND, vOF EULONG, NEAR FORBES, NEW SOUTH y WALES.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 685,175, dated October 22, 191.

Application filed May 23, 1900.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ACHILLES PETER RI- l -MOLDI, engineer, a naturalized subject of the ing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of bottles which after their first filling cannot again be filled,and which. thereby insure the geuuineness of the contents; and it has been devised in order to produce a bottle effective for such purpose and one in which the whole of the parts are constructed of glass or the like, which will have no effect and be unaffected by the contents.

. Abottle constructed according to this invention is originallymade in two partsavhich parts are then welded or blended together in the course of manufacture. One part consists of the body of the bottle with a short neck, and the other part consists of the head proper, together with the valves or stoppers constituting this invention-#namely a weighted valve, on the seat above which is a oat and above which again are indents in the neck or other means for preventing access to the iioat and to the valve through the mouth of the bottle. The weighted valve has a long stem, (in order to give it weight,) which passes through an inverted cup, which forms a bearing forit and also forms a fulcrum for a peculiarly-constructed weight. This weight has an eye which takes around the valve-stem and is prevented from falling thereoff bya flange or head on said stem. From the eyeitis curved to take over the edge of the cup and then bend upwardly and downwardly in a curve, so that when the bottle is mouth downward its center of gravity will be onor just adjacent to the edge of the cup, thereby enabling the weighted valve to open and allowr the contents to pour out, and so that said valve is sensitive enough to just close the valve when there is no assistance of outwardly-flowing liquid. In any other position the gravity ofA this weight exerts itself out side of the cup, so that the edge of the cup forms a fulcrum and causes the eye of said Serial No. 17,710. (No model.)

weight to thrustagainst the head on the valvestem and keep the valve to its seat, or if it be not so exerted the weight of the valvestem andvalve will keep said valve to the seat. Oriices are provided in the covering of the valve-stem, so that the contents of the bottlemay pass to the mouth. The bottle is filled through a small orice, preferably 4throu gh the bottom,which is closed by a stopper or screw,which isiminovably xed therein. In order that this invention may be clearly understood, reference will now be made to the drawings herewith, in Which- Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are sectionalplans on correspondingly-numbered lines in Fig. 6, which is a sectional elevation of an improved non-refillablepbottle vconstructed according to this invention. Dotted lines in Fig. 6 show vthe separate constructions of the neck and valves and stem and of the body and short neck before they are welded or melted together.

1 is the weighted valve; 2, its stem; 3, the Iiange or head thereon. 4 is the valve-seating in the neck 5.

6 isa globular float.

7 is a covering of the valve-stem 8,the bearing; 9,v the cup thereon, and 10 orifices. In the neck above the Heat-valve are indents 11, and above that again the orifice or mouth 12 for the cork 13.

14 is the eye of the bottom weight, adaptedto freely connect with the valve-stem 2-to permit of limited independent movement of said parts; 15, the -fulcrurn bend thereon; 16, lthe outer bend, and 17 the body.

18 is the screw-closure of the bottle, and 19 the head of the plug therein, which breaks off when the bottle is closed.

2O is the body of the bottle, and 21 (dotted lines) the short neck with which it is made before the other part 22 below the enlargement containing the globular oat 6 and the valve-seat 4 is Welded or melted thereto.

In use the bottle isllled through the oritice in which the screw'lS is inserted and sealed by its head 19 being broken off. To withdraw the contents, the cork 13 is withdrawn and the bottle turned upside down, the weight of the valve 1 and its stem 2 in IOO such position being sufficient to overcome the gravity of the weight 17, whoseforce is balanced on the edge of the cup 9, owing to the position of its center of gravity. When the bottle is in an upright position, the weight of the valve 1 and stem 2 is further exerted and is suihcient to keep the valve on its seat. In a sidewise or angular position of the bottle the center of gravity of the weight 17 is outwardly of the edge of the cup 9 and the force is exerted as a lever, which pulls the valve 1 to its seat. The indents 11, and for which may be substituted bars or other devices, prevent any interference by wires or the like with the valve 1. Should it be attempted to supply liquid through the mouth of the bottle in its normal position, the valve l prevents it, and in an inverted position the globular float will lift and assist the valve 1 to its seat 4, when the sensitiveness of the weight 17 then allows or causes said weight 17 to close said valve l.

Instead of having a cover, such as 7, for the valve-stem the bearing and the cup might be made of a frame or open disk across the body of the bottle and either form part of it or be jammed or cemented therein. This construction would allow of the stein carrying a disk near to the neck end of the bottle, so that the weight of the contents on said disk would assist the opening of the valve when the bottle was invert-ed.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. In a non-refillable bottle, a valve for closing the bottle-neck, a stem secured to said valve, a tube surrounding said stem, a Weight, and a suitable connection between said weight and stem adapted to fulcrum or pivot upon one edge of said tube as the bottle is disposed sidewise or inverted to eect the seating of said valve.

2. Ina non-refillable bottle, a valve adapted to seat in the bottle-neck, thereof, a stem connected thereto and extending downwardly within said bottle-body, a downwardly-extending tube surrounding the said stem, a weight, and a suitable connection secured at one end to said weight and at its opposite end to the lower portion of said stem and adapted to fulcrum or pivot upon the lower edge of said tube as the bottle is disposed sidewise or inverted to effect the seating of said valve, substantially as specified.

3. A non-reiillable bottle having a depending tube arranged within the body of the bottle, and having a guide or contraction near its normally-enlarged lower end, a valve arranged within the bottle-neck, and having its stem or rod disposed within said tube and centered by said tube construction or guide, and a weight having a reverse-bend connection with said valve stem or rod, adapted to pivot or fnlcrum upon the edge of said lower end enlargement of said tube as the bottle is placed sidewise or inverted to eeet the seating of the valve, substantially as setforth.

4. A non-refillable bottle having its neck portion provided with opposite inwardly-projecting stops or bailles, a disk valve and a spherical iioat arranged in the bottle-neck and the latter arranged above the former, a tube depending in the bottle-body and having ports or passages therethrough, near said neck, said disk valve having a stem or rod centered in said tube, and a weight having a reverse-bend connection with said stem or rod and adapted to pivot or fulcrum upon the edge of the normally lower end of said tube as the bottle is disposed sidewise or inverted 4 to eect the seating of said disk valve, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ACHILLES P. RIMOLDI.

Witnesses:

FRED WALSH, PERCY NEWELL. 

